[systemd-devel] [RFC] the chopping block

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 11.02.16 19:18, Matthias Urlichs (matthias at urlichs.de) wrote:

> On 11.02.2016 18:49, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > Again: this does not break systems with split off /var, as I tried to
> > make very clear in my original mail. All that's needed is that the
> > initrd mounts /var before handing off control to the main system.
> I know that. Please don't assume that I misunderstood you just because
> every systemd-basher during the last five years did the same thing. :-P
> 
> However, it *does* break systems which do not mount /var in their initrd
> despite having /var (or a piece thereof) split off.
> Such changes should have a "deprecated" phase between "works fine" and
> "needs manual intervention".

Well, it's just a matter of shifting responsibilities between systemd
and the initrd, that's all. I'd really like to see this responsibility
being moved over to the initrd, like we already did for the /usr case.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat